A day of October 12, leaders of indigenous EIDICO destroyed the altar of Punta Querandí
From the Movement in Defense of the Pacha with social organizations mobilize in October, the Municipality of Tigre and Infrastructure Management (ADIF) under the Ministry of Federal Planning in the Federal Capital . The measure was decided at a meeting after last Monday transcend that truck operators working for the enterprises of Villa Nueva de EIDICO Complex-company related to Opus Dei dependent on the Catholic Church have orders to fill the entire site where the archaeological remains of Canal Point, located in the northern town of Dike tigrense Lujan, 50 km from Capital Federal. The same day, two directors of this company - which officials have shared with the Municipality of Tigre - violated the Apacheta (mound of stones that identifies a sacred offering to the Pachamama). The members of the Movement in Defense of Pacha we camped in the area for 8 months to prevent privatization and destruction, we note that we will resist any attempt to work on the farm by EIDICO. We condemn the action of this people who call themselves Roman Catholic, and ask for an apology from the church authorities who represent them.
Monday dawned with a rare condition. Two directors of EIDICO were inside the property at issue, smiling. Minutes later found destroyed Apacheta was mounted by more than 200 people at the end of the month of Pachamama on 29 August. And he knew that the truck operators working in the surrounding lots were filling the order to fill the entire area of \u200b\u200bPunta Canal site. Days before the company had planted vines around the fence that separates the property in Brazil street conflict, anticipating his decision to move from facts on the ground.
EIDICO consider the action as a gross provocation and also a slap in stalemate, as it comes after the September 23 President of Infrastructure Management (ADIF), Jose Nicanor Villafañe, respond to a request of the Movement in Defense of the Pacha stating that they are considering the claims of native peoples in the lands of Punta Canal, for the former intermediate stop mile 4 of the former Mitre branch united Ingeniero Maschwitz (Escobar) with Dique Luján (Tigre). These lands were transferred into two sale and purchase tickets in April 2007 without taking into account their social and historical importance to the inhabitants of the region in general and in particular by indigenous organizations in the Greater Buenos Aires because there are remains of ancient burials of the first settlers of the province.
While the decision on the ownership of land depends on ADIF, the Government of Tigre by Sergio Massa has different ways of acting in this conflict in favor of the settlers and native peoples, so that it can not be the other way . The buy-sell tickets have a clause that enables the municipality to claim a share of land for streets, squares and other public places without the company can claim any compensation. Beyond this, the works of EIDICO require municipal empowerment, so that is in your hands to ensure that there is peace in the place. Only logical now that ADIF announced it is examining the case. After
owners notice our will to resist, the trucks stopped entering land to farm. But we demand a written commitment by the Government of Tigre that will not allow EIDICO continue with the work on the property in dispute. Apart from the power of any municipality can control and should exercise, we ask the executive Sergio Massa to use the deep ties that bind with EIDICO. Recall that the municipality's legal advisor, Javier Bosch, is familiar to managers EIDICO; that the Under Secretary of Urban Planning, Paul Damen was EIDICO executive until 2007 and was involved in the transfer of the disputed land and that Sergio Massa when he headed the Cabinet of the nation between June 2008 June 2009 and appointed as an adviser to George O'Reilly, one of the main boss of this mega-real estate company.
protection of this public space millennium by the Municipality of Tigre would be logical considering its importance and that they call neighbors, villagers, indigenous organizations and the Senate of the Province of Buenos Aires. But the place corresponding to a much larger portion of thousands of acres of wetlands and rural areas that have been delivered earlier by the city government and the current market Massa for the gated yacht, no matter that this is due to leave and displace the existing population, closing streets and roads public devastate wetlands of high ecological importance and develop on indigenous cemeteries of ancient civilizations.
The Catholic Church will ask Argentina to give a ruling on violations of human rights by EIDICO, which claims to hold Christian values \u200b\u200band their links with the church authorities. A few meters from the camp into the future gated San Benito - named in honor of Pope Benedict XVI - stands a chapel to be released soon and works the Congregation of Mater Dei with the permission of the Diocese of Zárate-Campana. "The destruction of the Apacheta was an isolated event? On 31 August the Catholic Church issued a document from Rome which is positioned on the meaning of 12 October. They said that all enemies of the church sponsoring the "indigenous movement" and that "no valid argument with false theories" on 12 October qualify as a "sad and even fateful date." Does the Catholic Church the only valid beliefs are your beliefs? Jorge
In May O'Reilly (EIDICO) told the Journal that the campers Tiempo Argentino raised his claim so arrogant and uncivilized. "Do not act in good faith or the source of his attitude comes from the side of not wanting to accept the benefits the legal regime that allows private property, "he said. We wonder now who is the barbarian, if we who defend our beliefs and public places, or EIDICO entrepreneurs to take over the common areas and destroy the indigenous sacred sites. How would take if you do the same in the luxury-built chapel are just a few meters from the camp in which priests officiate Americans? What if you take our communities and neighborhoods up Catholic cemeteries?
Please act to the National Institute of Indigenous Affairs (INAI) under the Ministry of Social Development, whose president Daniel Fernandez said recently about the importance of claiming the presence Querandí in Greater Buenos Aires, to break one of the most hidden of Argentina's history. However, after two presentations in September we have had no response from the agency. We want to rule before applying to Punta Querandí ADIF is not privatized.
What about the Human Rights Secretariat of the Province of Buenos Aires has an area of \u200b\u200bnative peoples with an Indian official? Has been completely left out of this conflict, at least so far, without any justification.
The National is holding a great opportunity: the Bicentennial year in October - the resistance of the first European invaders - can make the first repairs to the metropolitan area's ancient people, those who were swept in the first days of conquest - which is not easy for them and today there are rivers like the name Luján bearing as that of the conquerors killed by our ancestors. The Colony neighborhoods near the city of Buenos Aires, the Republic continued to wars of conquest and today the Argentine state while recognizing the ethnic and cultural diversity of indigenous peoples in Argentina, has not made any repairs to these people who had thousands of years inhabiting those territories. The presence of the ancient cultures of the Greater Buenos Aires is invisible, while their murderers, who commanded the massacre, as Pedro de Mendoza and Juan de Garay, are honored with great monuments such as the Obelisk.
OUR APPROACH
The rebellious spirit of the ancestors of Buenos Aires with us and pushes us to keep fighting to keep this sacred place we consider to be conquered again. The camp sits on Brazil Street and Canal Villanueva, from there we see on the other side of the Santa Catalina gated community built on an Indian burial ground immense, known as Garin site. On the grounds that we are defending, between Brazil and the stream street Garin (2 hectares), are the remains of Canal Point site, which also featured some human remains as suspect contains more. We want ADIF
annul the sale of these lands and that the land remains public, instead of being annexed to New Villa Complex (EIDICO - Opus Dei). We strive to continue allowing fishermen access for thousands of years. We want to make a cultural center and a museum to revalue the pieces found, which may be visited by all schools in the Greater Buenos Aires. And most importantly, we want remains of our brothers rest in peace, we urge the authorities in restitution archaeological human remains from burial sites located in Punta Garin and Canal, to the corresponding reburial according to Aboriginal custom.
Villagers recall historic site Garin excavation site where he took a full body which was but a fragment of skull. Are known stories of apparitions, both residents and former residents of the country of Santa Catalina moved for that reason.
Besides the humanitarian reasons for protecting these lands and not privatize for the building of country clubs, there are several irregularities in the transfers that allow ADIF to reverse the same. Now that the agency says it is analyzing the case, we call on other sectors to petition adding the claim already made by residents, neighbors, members of indigenous peoples and the Senate of the Province of Buenos Aires. Pronouncements are important indigenous and grassroots organizations, NGOs, churches, political parties, academic, boards of historical studies, cultural institutions, personalities, etc.
THE PEOPLE AND WE SUPPORT WORKERS
On Monday, with the threat of trucks entering the farm land, campers got the quick tour of local fishermen who were doing all day endurance. Support for the camp by the population of the neighboring towns is total, and its resistance is already part of the site's history. "In school we were told in February that a lot of Indians came and stopped the bulldozers," he recently told a student public school district humble and popular San Miguel de Ingeniero Maschwitz, behind the Armenian court, 2 kilometers from the camp. The employees of the companies outsourced to EIDICO also support us. The first is curiosity, to know the reason for the claim, the second is solidarity and complicity are silent until cast shortly. Our struggle is embedded in the bowels of EIDICO ventures, and there are many owners of lots of country clubs who wonder whether it is better to give in to our demands and bet on a harmonious relationship as possible with the settlers, indigenous and the ancestors who rest there.
Tigre, October 8, 2010
Contacts:
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Alberto (15) 5926-2823
Pedro (011) 4455-2172
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